STEVE SMITH GET JUNGLE FIRE BURNING.
STEVE SMITH WEIGH DOWN BY BURDEN OF TRY FREE CASCADIA. HIM NEED CHANGE. STEVE SMITH DECIDE HIM TRY HOBO LIFE. HIM HAVE SONG ABOUT IT.
HOBO HIKING
One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fire was burning,
Down the track came a cryptid hobo hiking,
And he said, “Boys, I’m not turning
I’m headed for a land that’s far away
Besides the Cascadia Fountains
So come with me, we’ll go and see
The Big Rock Rapey Mountains
And the jungle fire was burning,
Down the track came a cryptid hobo hiking,
And he said, “Boys, I’m not turning
I’m headed for a land that’s far away
Besides the Cascadia Fountains
So come with me, we’ll go and see
The Big Rock Rapey Mountains
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains,
There’s a land that’s fair and bright,
Where the snacks grow on bushes
And you rape out every night
Where the Ranger stations all are empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees
And the hikers trapped in trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
There’s a land that’s fair and bright,
Where the snacks grow on bushes
And you rape out every night
Where the Ranger stations all are empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees
And the hikers trapped in trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
All the Forest Rangers have wooden legs
And the wolves all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The campers’ RVs are full of food
And the caves are full of hay
Oh I’m bound to go
Where there ain’t too much snow
Where the rain don’t fall
The wind don’t blow
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
All the Forest Rangers have wooden legs
And the wolves all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The campers’ RVs are full of food
And the caves are full of hay
Oh I’m bound to go
Where there ain’t too much snow
Where the rain don’t fall
The wind don’t blow
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
You never have to wear hooman socks
And the little streams of hikers
Come trickling down the rocks
The Park Service have to tip their hats
And the tree police are blind
There’s a lake of stew
And of mooses, too
You can paddle all around ’em
With SEA SMITH too
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
You never have to wear hooman socks
And the little streams of hikers
Come trickling down the rocks
The Park Service have to tip their hats
And the tree police are blind
There’s a lake of stew
And of mooses, too
You can paddle all around ’em
With SEA SMITH too
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains,
The RVs are made of tin
And you can rape right out again,
As soon as you rape in
There ain’t no fast moving hikers,
No pepper spray or boom sticks,
I’ma goin’ to stay
Where you rape all day,
Where they hung the hoomans
That invented self-defense
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
The RVs are made of tin
And you can rape right out again,
As soon as you rape in
There ain’t no fast moving hikers,
No pepper spray or boom sticks,
I’ma goin’ to stay
Where you rape all day,
Where they hung the hoomans
That invented self-defense
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains
I’ll see you all this coming Fall
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains”
In the Big Rock Rapey Mountains”
…
THAT WORTH HOBO NICKLE!
LIBERTY FOR STEVE SMITH!
NOW STEVE SMITH HAVE CAREFREE LIFE – HIM GIVE ADVICE. FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. NOW.
Q: When out in public, how can you politely ask people to keep their social distance?
A: STEVE SMITH NEVER HAVE THIS TROUBLE – IT OPPOSITE, STEVE SMITH WANT NO DISTANCE.
NO 6 FOOTS RULE HERE!
BUT IF REALLY WANT BE FAR, SAY “MOVE OR GET HIT ON HEAD WITH BIG ROCK”
I NOT WEARING MASK! WHY YOU SAY THAT?
FREE CASCADIA! FOR CRYPTID HOBOS!
I ike Chef John.
How about “I like Ike”?
Nobody likes a wisenheimer.
*narrows gaze*
You are, after all, the Donald Trump of your roast rump.
“When out in public, how can you politely ask people to keep their social distance?”
Remember to take your meds that morning.
(unless of course you have a comorbidity that actually makes it necessary, then why are you out at all?)
I need to buy more ammo.
Hey what was that hangover cure you posted awhile back? *Asking for a friend*
More whiskey.
What works best for me is a greasy meal and about a quart of Pedialyte.
That is my go to sans the Pedialyte. I thought it was you who posted something that helped liver function after a binge.
I don’t think that was me…
My bad.
Dihydromyricenin?
It won’t cure a hangover, but will make it less severe.
Dihydromyricetin? Sorry.
I smile and fart loudly. Works a treat.
Everyone can manage a fake coughing attack.
https://imgur.com/gallery/35HPKj2
?????????????
I got nothing.
I always wanted to be a hobo when I was a kid. Doesn’t sound so good now.
YOU NOT WANT GO SEE BIG ROCK RAPEY MOUNTAINS WITH STEVE SMITH?!
I’m good. Thanks.
Sorry to go OT so fast, Steve. Please no visit because my governor is already ass ramming me plenty.
Re-opening plans for WA:
4 phased approach that will last in excess of 15 weeks. Lockdown continues through May. Nothing really returns to ‘normal’ until phase 4 (mid-August).
Fuck you, Jay Inslee. Several landmark local businesses have already announced they will be closing permanently. So fucking happy we all get to live through another great depression.
So “reopen” to preemptively shut down for second wave? Excellent. Thanks to the suicide compact, I guess that’s the same timeline here even though Fascist Cuntface doesn’t have the stones to actually articulate concrete dates. Just wish washing goalpost moving steps without any accountability.
I have started calling her Kunt, our governor, after that shitty campaign slogen. She is roundly hated everywhere in the state outside the Portland to Eugene corridor.
Well of course there are no concrete dates. Asshole made it clear he can extend them as long as he wants. If they stick to their guns on this, this WILL get ugly. As in famine and food riots. This really is headed to a very bad place.
“Well of course there are no concrete dates.”
If there were we’d have scraped up peckers, you know what I mean?
NOT FOR STEVE! STEVE HAVE THIS CALLOUSES BUILT UP! CHAFFING FOR NUBES!
Somehow I don’t see folks standing still for another shutdown if there’s a “second wave.” Karens might, but I think people will refuse to bow next time.
When not set Trump losing the election as requirement for reopening?
By treating it as a common problem, rather than showing offense at being encroached upon. Rather than “Back off,” Miss Manners recommends, “I think we had better keep farther apart.”
My advice would have been “Go fuck yourself. You, not the person failing to keep Leper Length.”
OK, so I won’t be the first to OT. RE Biden and what the DNC (or whatever they are calling themselves these days. DCCCP? Maybe…) Biden was the only one of that gaggle of ‘tards who polled above spit with potential voters. Everyone else was DOA except Bern! and it was forgone that he would loose. Right now the various factions that backed semi-coherent loosers from the primary are now fighting to be a sloppy seconds VP candidate. If, and it is a big if, Biden makes it through the gate they are pretty sure that the job will be theirs in a matter of months if not weeks.
Problem is all of them tripped so bad in the primary that it looks like a joke, and the $METOO movement is now paying its dividends. Hard and fast.
It really comes down to if they are 51% evil and 49% stupid or vise versa. If it’s the former this was the plan all along and they’ll install HERSELF as VP or someone hand selected and vetted by the DNC. If it’s the later, who knows? I really can’t decide if it’s clown world or a set-up.
I feel like the DNC party handlers didn’t expect Biden’s decline to be so obvious. IOW, they thought they thought they were going to be evil about it (hide his decline, pick a VP they wanted, and then TA-DA President Warren in 2022 when BIden has to step down, and now they just look like clowns because he makes Trump sound coherent.
And clearly the Reade shit is blowing up in their face even after a full month of attempting to smother her with a pillow because the Bernie bros have no interest in helping Biden, so they’re doing the Lord’s work in getting the allegation into lefty spaces and forcing coverage. I don’t think it makes much difference to most voters, really, but it’s certainly a handle for the Bernie bros to hang onto and refuse to vote if they were fence-sitting before.
They don’t have anyone else. Hillary and Biden are all that is left from the horrific Clinton ‘centrist democrat’ admin era. Obama was an anomaly.
They know that the country is not yet ready for the new batshit crazy commie democrats.
They don’t have anyone else capable of coming close to beating orangebadman.
That’s why.
The VP will be Warren. Now STFU, Tulpa!
President Biden might be a hoot, but can you imagine President Warren, Harris or Klobuchar?
There ain’t nothing funny about hat.
that, or the hair
They need a woman of color. Stacey Abrams to the non-white courtesy phone, please.
Agreed. Where’s the sense in picking a VP (and de facto nominee) who was roundly rejected by your own lunatic base? Harris was such a shit show she didn’t even make it to Iowa, for fuck’s sake.
She was a top tier candidate – she said so herself.
With her on the ticket California might finally turn blue.
A man goes to a doctor for a checkup.
The doctor examines him. He says, “I have bad news. You have cancer and alzheimers.”
The man says, “at least I don’t have cancer.”
New spin to this joke:
Joe Biden goes to the doctor for a checkup.
The doctor examines him. He says, I have bad news. You have the COVID-19 virus and dementia.”
Joe says, “at least I don’t have that chink virus.”
When someone is standing to close to you, the solution is to move.
(If they follow you, punch them in the face.)
LOL
Sitting at a stop sign. A car with the right-of-way slows down and stops RIGHT. IN. FRONT. OF. ME.
Then I look and there’s a guy walking out in the middle of the street. He’s “social distancing” from a woman on the sidewalk. The woman’s rolling her eyes and shaking her head like, “You idiot.”
Holding up traffic to walk around someone. Good 12 feet from her.
The saddest thing about COVID-19, for me, it it has really driven home what a nation of ignorant morons we are.
Idiocracy set the date about 470 years too far into the future.
Was it always like that, or is the complete lack of critical thinking skills a characteristic of the modern west? I lean towards the former, but hope that the latter is True
I think facederp and twatter eccelerated our race to the bottom. If enabled ‘hive-mind’ on a scale humans are not equipped to adapt to.
Evidently it also impaired my ability to spell.
We have always been fools. The first century of the Republic was a brief period when the wise had managed to set up mechanisms to block the fools from their folly. No one can do that long term.
I’m no fool
Expected this.
Fa-Fa-Fa-Foolin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACrmwTsi08
Not this?
You must have an exhaustive one-hit wonder list. I forgot about that and don’t have THAT one, either!
Superchunk – Like a Fool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WU_edveoRk
Fool in the Rain – you know who
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I57nIP0vc44
Ship of Fools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekc_aR5LyAk
Poor Little Fool – Ricky Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5UDiQC3RDs
Not quite a one-hit wonder
Fool on the Hill – The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGEX_7IqaC4
I’m no fool
Fool on the Hill
High five! On the side! Down low! Too slow!
Hi-Five
Sigrid – High Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6A2LHGx8_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nCugGQZO0
“High As Five” – Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUw6bimRrOY
Love that slap bass.
I wish I could do that.
Missed a fool?
https://youtu.be/KPeHHpXOOds
How ’bout this bass, nick?
Tommy the Cat
How about this bass, nick?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsJlJdWof8
How about this bass, nick?
youtube.com/watch?v=hMsJlJdWof8
Probably have to copy paste. I can’t post links.
It may be factual, may be cruel
I ain’t lying
Everybody plays the fool
Nothing truer has been sung!
*High fives Gustave, moves hand at the last second*
The COVID is like the jumping spider of viruses. You can just be standing there all by yourself, then BOOM jumping spider, and you’ve got the COVID. Or someone walks by a little too close and BOOM jumping spider and you’ve got the COVID.
Also if you walk outside, someone’s Grandma in another down gets CV, even if you don’t have it.
Just smile toothily and tell them that you are a bottom pincher. They’ll move.
I suspect that I may get a different result if I made that statement.
I want to go to Disneyland with you.
I’m going to Disneyland
wint
@dril
200k/yr media job where we all wear sweater vests, kiss each other & try to convince people biden is technically a “Molester” not a “Rapist”
I can’t put my impatient anger into words. This bullshit has to stop soon. I almost said regrettable things on a call with the chief administrative officer because I’m so fucking tired of the cheery progs who see this like summer camp.
Same for me. I need to find an outlet and fast.
The Dude minds. This aggression will not stand.
It’s like I was telling my wife the other day. I’d violate the shit out of all these stupid goddamn orders, but what would I do? The bars I go to with my friends are closed. I can’t and don’t want to force restaurants I like to wait on me inside. If I don’t wear a mask in a store the store owners get in trouble. Shit, even the sports talk guys who had been so happy to go along with this unconstitutional bullshit are starting to genuinely complain because Maryland has kept golf courses closed. Fucking golf courses. Mind you, VA and DC courses are open. I believe PA too.
I’m no longer interested in whether it’s nefariousness, idiocy, an overabundance of caution, or a total inability to make cost-benefit analyses. I’m just fuckin’ done.
You can golf in New York.
But you can’t drive a cart.
Carts are Chinese corona agents.
Do they have the inserts in the holes? You know, so you don’t catch the ‘rona because you touch a golf ball that touched the sides of a hole that also touched a different golf ball that touched someone with ‘rona hands?
My God close all course the physical holes are a potential.
PA is allowing golf courses to re-open. 16 minutes between tee times. One person to a cart. Cart hosed down with disinfectant after every use. Cops will be watching to make sure no high fiving on greens after a great putt. No 19th green.
I suppose foul language is still allowed.
“I suppose foul language is still allowed.”
Up to $8000 in fines and a year in prison.
Just keeping it in perspective with the other recent little tyrant dictats.
“I can’t put my impatient anger into words. This bullshit has to stop soon.”
I’m not worried about getting it. I’m pretty sure that my internal boiling rage at this point is elevating my body temperature to a point that would kill any virus ever known.
A man goes into a doctors office and the doctor finds he has 5 penises.
The doctor says how do you fit in pants?
The man says, like a glove.
I _almost_ posted that joke in reply to your earlier one.
I love that joke.
Friday Funbags is bouncy, bodacious and beautiful.
http://archive.li/bjzzt
Is 30 in the trunk of a car?
I want to see more of #5, #38, and #72.
#7, #8, and #59 are hot.
I’d workout with #14.
But #68 wins because of a Dirndl.
Mmmm…..72….
I like 1, 4, 23, 50.
33’s here for your bunny.
I mean, #50 and #55, but, if I’m being honest…and maybe this is all the zinc I’ve been taking talking…all of them.
all of them.
Good. Someone has taken up the orgy banner.
Do you know the motto of the Greek army?
Never leave your buddies behind.
How can I leave this behind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qDgCmzh5ao
Come and take it.
Federal government and three states are in talks with controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI to track coronavirus patients and see who they have been in contact with
Freedom!
I was thinking about the Reade stuff and I realized I was a Senate intern around that same time she was there. I was in DC for the summer to work for Sen Domenici. The funny thing was I clearly remember being warned that no female intern should be alone with Sen Strom Thurmond. He was very old, and it was sort of a joke since you could run away from him, but also quite serious that he would grope all the girls if he had the chance, even at 88 or whatever he was at the time.
Biden was in the senate then, and I don’t remember any warning about him (or anyone else, tbh), but otoh we rarely would’ve been in a position to be alone with our own senator (interns are way down on the power totempole), not to mention someone else’s and Across the Aisle besides. So anyway, I can’t confirm anything specific about Biden, but I certainly can confirm that some senators were FAMOUS for groping and nobody did anything about it. So if anyone comes out with “well the senate would have done something if this was true!” that is certainly bullshit.
“I was thinking about the Reade stuff and I realized I was a Senate intern around that same time she was there.”
*beads of sweat appear on forehead*
*fists clench*
He thinks to himself, “resist. Resist.”
He is weak.
*unzips and reads on…*
You want to wank to thoughts of Sen Thurmond, I don’t judge. You do you.
The man’s a legend in the tight mud shark community.
“…down on the power totempole…”
Yo, you triggered yet Crusty?
Poppy Bush as well. He groped girls from his wheelchair. I admired him for that.
Game respect game.
My niece was up there last year as an intern. She said there was one very clear difference between the big name democrats and the big name republicans. The Republicans were all really nice to the interns, and the democrats were assholes that treated them like dirt. She said several of the old republican dudes took the time to ask her about her life and remembered her name. The democrats just treated her like the kitchen help, none of them were ever friendly.
But that was the senate. I’m sure the House would have been different.
She didn’t report anyone being gropey McGrope-face. But she was a high school intern, so maybe everyone knew to keep their hands to themselves around a minor.
That’s because the Democrats are too busy WORKING FOR HER RIGHT TO UNLIMITED ABORTIONS and those old white Republican sleazebags are GROOMING HER.
Commodius wins the internet.
School’s out Forever
Evidently smokin’ in the boys room can cure CV19.
Well, that was quick:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-first-press-briefing/index.html
lol……ya that didn’t take long at all. The note totally exonerates the FBI.
Even better… their article about how she is “misleading” for saying the FBI tried to get Flynn to lie in an interview that was entirely designed to trap Flynn in what in all likelihood was a fake lie, they complain that the White House has not had a press briefing led by the press secretary in over a year – an unprecedented act! This, from the same group that complained about Trump speaking to the press too much …. after having complained about the prez not doing enough press – even though he did loads more than his predecessor and his predecessor almost never spoke to the press without having the questions scripted in advance.
OK, time for some good hollow body Gretch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w84iW-oXX5Q
What is the point of Coronavirus curfews? Is the virus deadlier during the hours of eight to midnight and six to eight? Is it somehow safer to compress shopping hours at one of the few locations still open to the public to six fewer hours a day? Is it not possible to catch the virus while standing in line to buy groceries? What’s the reasoning here, assholes?
Do as you’re told, comrade, for your own good! Nothing to see here, move along…
It keeps both the disgusting people willing to risk the lives of others indoors as well as keeps our first responders safe.
Wow, check out this guy who doesn’t believe in science and wants people to die.
Well, if we don’t stay locked down forever, some politicians political careers may end prematurely, so there’s that.
I think you know the point. Hint: it has nothing to do with flattening any damn curve.
For Your Total Wellness
To let you know your place.
The voluntary store hours (aside from government mandated) is apparently a combination of staffing issues, restocking, and cleaning the stores. Still is stupid to funnel people into fewer hours.
Seems like high turnover + burning through months’ worth of inventory in weeks + a population of out-of-work locals would make for ramping up hours and staffing.
That would make sense.
Yes, and this will become increasingly problematic as businesses reopen and workers no longer have the leisure to shop any time.
There are Tulpae all over the place. I think we all know who is responsible for this latest Tulpa outbreak…
*holds Zippo lighter in the air*
The Onion horns in on Babylon Bee’s shtick by actually being funny.
That 1% of the vote is going to be the most important thing in history.
Yeah, one month I’m told I’m wasting my vote on 3rd Party, and next I’m told my 3rd Party vote will decide the election.
Not this year. Rand should take Justin out behind the shed and slap the shit out of him. TDS is no excuse for being retarded.
Yeah, if people vote for Amash, why, Hillary might win!
It’s not going to move the needle either way. There still is no excuse for the dude being a retard because of TDS. We have very precious few libertarian leaning people in Congress as it is and he wants to fuck that up.
No one has still given me a convincing explanation of how he is a “retard” other than “he doesn’t like Trump”.
Where was all the outrage from you guys when Trump fucking shanked Massie in the back? When are we going to accept that Mommy GOP and Daddy LP are divorced and things aren’t ever going to go back to how they were?
Dude, it is all rigged so that YOU can never win.
Just stop playing and live your life the best you can.
He’s a retard because we need him in Congress instead of him running a completely useless presidential campaign.
Everyone can have their own opinion on this, but that’s mine.
“Where was all the outrage from you guys when Trump fucking shanked Massie in the back?”
That’s just Trump being Trump. It’s a completely different issue.
It’s fine to push back on Trump on specific issues, but Amash’s opposition seems way out of proportion to Trump’s deficiencies, and comes off as disingenuous. His swallowing of the Russian collusion hoax, and the impeachment nonsense doesn’t strike me as in good faith either. I don’t think he’s that stupid, Yes I know he opposes the surveillance state, and is to be commended for it, but throws that all out the window when it concerns Trump or anyone associated with him, and that makes me suspicious. Trump’s a mixture of good and bad (or bad and worse if you prefer), but he’s no worse, and to my mind slightly better than most other presidents or politicians in general. His over the top condemnation of Trump, and leaving the party because of him doesn’t pass the smell test, IMHO.
I agree with you, Hype. I’d rather have him in Congress. Same as Rand. President is overrated, anyway. You think TDS is rampant? Can you imagine an actual libertarian president? It would be 24/7 “he thinks the government shouldn’t do anything, so people die” bullshit. Top down will never happen for libertarians. You have to go bottom up, so people see that they don’t actually need government.
No. No, it isn’t. After eliminating the neocons, Trump and his crowd have proven to be actively hostile to any libertarian faction in the GOP, time and time again. How else do you think Trump would treat a threat to his reckless spending and abuse of executive power?
Trump called for primarying the most libertarian Congressman because he insisted that if we had to swallow the fact that Trump took advantage of a manufactured crisis to disburse tax money to his corporate cronies, then we should at least follow constitutional procedure. That’s facts.
And we’re supposed to now cluck our tongues because Amash signed on with the impeachment crowd? For what reason do should we give a fuck about what happens to Trump? If he wants to live by the sword of gross abuse of executive power, then he can die by the sword of gross abuse of legislative power. I don’t even get how one can call Trump slightly “libertarian”, much less “the most libertarian”. I feel like I’m in Bizarro World where red is blue and blue is green. Our definitions of “libertarian” cannot be the same. Regardless, Trump has proven what he thinks of the term through his conduct towards Massie. I am bewildered as to why any libertarian would not consider than to be an unforgivable sin.
My take on Amash was that he used Russiagate as an opportunity to grandstand, knowing his LP nomination and subsequent b-list political career was a lock. Had he not decided to make Russiagate his hill to die on I’d be much more inclined to support him. While the guys voting record is admittedly great, that action it makes me doubt his character and wonder if it was a cynical ploy. Is he running because he has principles or was this his last option because he knew he was getting primaried out of his seat in congress? I don’t give a shit about how he feels about Trump, one way or the other. But if I am going to vote I want to vote for somebody I know stands on principle.
And like many libertarians have pointed out, the LP nomination for President becomes the defacto ideal of what a libertarian is in the minds of the normies. It’s not about winning (we know that won’t happen), its about educating. Will Amash do this or will he run a banal ‘reform’ campaign that consists of virtue signaling and empty platitudes al la Johnson-Weld. I’m not confident Amash won’t follow that model.
As a libertarian I want another Ron Paul who doesn’t modify the message to make it palatable to the establishment. I want someone who will breath fire and reveal our establishment for what it is.
Trump is an asshole.
Amash is also an asshole.
Biden is a senile asshole.
Biden’s pool of VPs seems to consist of open marxists.
You are correct that my hatred of Amash stems from his behavior in the Mueller hearings. Thing is, I think that behavior was despicable so I am not sure why I need more than that to conclude he is an asshole.
Trump is an asshole for several reasons, but most egregiously because of shanking Massie.
@Bob
That’s why I’m still writing in McAfee.
@HM…..Daily I lean further and further toward the Agorist view that voting is an indirect act of aggression. I don’t blame anyone for voting in their own interests, but ultimately I wonder if it is being complicit in choosing your own master when you do….. if I am going to vote it’s going to be 100% on principle. I’m over picking the lesser of 2 (or 3) evils.
And yes, McAfee fucking rocks.
The problem, HM, is not that I disagree with you on pure libertarian principle.
The problem is that we are actually in a war with leftist forces who will snuff the life out of all of our freedoms as soon as they get the chance.
So we have to form alliances sometimes with people we don’t agree with on everything. The common enemy principle or whatever.
Trump has been great so far about badly needed deregulation, on wanting to cut taxes, and on foreign non-aggression.
Let’s also add the bonus of him trolling the fuck out of our hateful and destructive media.
I’m not supporting Trump on ideological principle. I’m supporting him because it’s the best thing I can do right now.
I get your point, hope you can understand mine.
@ Bob Boberson
Dude, it is all rigged so that YOU can never win.
Just stop playing and live your life the best you can.
“That’s why I’m still writing in McAfee.”
I’d vote for that guy in a heartbeat. Not for president, but for Congress, hell yes.
@pistoffnick
I hear ya, see my comment about Agorism. You don’t subvert the state by playing into their popularity contest.
I am bewildered as to why any libertarian would not consider than to be an unforgivable sin.
Agreed. That’s the incident that took me from “maybe, but probably not” to “hard no” on voting Trump.
That said, Amash ain’t getting my vote either. Anybody playing along with that republic-wrecking conspiracy to undo the 2016 election is on my perma-fuckoff list.
@trshy
^Once again expresses my own opinions more succinctly than I am capable of doing
You don’t give a damn when the government manufactures a case to prosecute an opposition politician as a foreign spy. Why should I care what your definition of libertarian is?
Don’t put words in my mouth.
I understand that. What I’m trying to say is that we need to realize that they don’t want to ally with us. The majority narrative within the post-2016 GOP greater conservative movement is that we are the 5th Column. Libertarians aren’t putting “America First” and making her “great again.” The one spot where libertarians and mainstream conservatives used to meet on the Venn diagram (fiscal responsibility and free market principles) is gone. They don’t want what we are selling. Simple as that. Not only do they not see us as natural allies against progressivism (manly because they agree with the majority of progressive economic policy, they just don’t believe in cosmopolitanism), they actively view us as a threat to their ideological dominance. Reagan believed that libertarianism was the “heart” of conservatism. For the Nu-GOP, there can only be one thing at the “heart” of conservatism: Trump’s cult of personality. So, to keep some sort of allegiance to them when they treat libertarian-leaning pols like shit is some sort of political battered wives syndrome.
@trash
The problem wasn’t that Trump was impeached. The problem was that Trump was impeached for the wrong reasons. Trump should have been impeached for the same reasons Obama should have been impeached, which are the same reasons Bush should have been impeached – abuse of executive power in violation of Article I of the Constitution. In Trump’s case, a major charge should have been levying tarriffs without the consent of Congress, in Obama’s case that plus levying war without consent of Congress, ect. ect.
The Republic was wrecked a long time ago.
The problem wasn’t that Trump was impeached. The problem was that Trump was impeached for the wrong reasons.
IMO, the impeachment itself is immaterial. The likely sequence of events point to a thorough corruption of a large number of governmental institutions, the weaponization of the espionage apparatus, and possible rigging of an election. To associate oneself with that, like Amash has, makes me question one’s libertarian bona fides. Basing it on obstruction of justice, when the investigation was wholly unjust in the first place? It’s the political equivalent of “well, it doesn’t matter that they didn’t find any drugs… he deserved to have his house raided at 2am by a SWAT team, because he’s an asshole”
Perhaps there’s room for everybody in the impeachment saga to be assholes. That’s not the tack Amash took, though.
You’re right that the republic has been gone for a long time, but I’m not gonna cheer as people tear another row of shingles off the roof.
@Trash
I agree with you. I think what could have been lost in the greater conversation this morning and now is that what I’m questioning is why Amash is being held to a higher standard than Trump. In the end, they are both politicians. If one tells me that I should overlook Trump’s foibles because the alternative of rule by the Squad is much worse, then how much more so with Amash and what seems to be his one moment of weakness?
why Amash is being held to a higher standard than Trump
For me, personally:
1) fair or not, if you take the libertarian label, you get higher scrutiny.
2) Amash has positioned himself as the principled purist. Trump has positioned himself as an unprincipled cudgel to beat the left with. Thus, Amash is successful when he adheres to principle. Trump is successful when he owns the libs.
3) the russia/Ukraine/impeachment bullshit is the most egregious power grab I’ve ever witnessed. Being wrong on that issue is really hard to come back from.
That said, I can’t imagine any Trump love in libertarian circles these days, and I cringe when I see it here. Accidental libertarian one day, accidental authoritarian the next. I’m not gonna celebrate that.
Trying to process everything HM said, I agree that McAfee is fantastic from a libertarian standpoint. But, let’s face it, he’s crazier than a shithouse rat. Having him represent us is not a good look, and won’t push us in the right direction, in the long run.
(The joke isn’t supposed to be Justin Amash announcing. You’ll have to click through.)
That is good.
Yeah, now we get the next batshit crazy squad member to replace him in the house for his district. Wonderful, no doubt.
Given his district, you honestly think he had a chance at reelection?
Yes, I think he did have. Now, not so much. That’s what being a fucking idiot does.
That’s going to be stuck in my head all night!
Found out what Crusty did today. And it only cost him $80.
How do you know I bought some Makers and also bought and overtipped for a takeout steak dinner?
Ok. So we have baseline number now. That’s a start.
Out: Gay for Pay
In: Feet for Treat
RIP everyone in Sweden.
Hopefully we were able to evacuate their bikini team.
They forgot to say all the deaths were from coronavirus.
“While not all of the recorded deaths will be due to the virus, it’s likely that the virus is the main reason for the increase or ‘extra’ deaths compared to previous years, and so these figures help us get a clear picture of its impact on society.”
But I’m totally convinced.
I liked this part:
So…. sounds like they’re doing much better than Belgium?
They’re not going to let any facts get in the way of a good narrative.
When’s the last time in history that we had as many people over 80 years old as we do today? I’d really like the data on that.
And yet they still have less deaths per million Pops than the Netherlands, UK, France, Spain, and Italy.
Posted about this earlier. This is the latest trend. Grab an average, usually for a limited time period such as the last 3 or 5 years, and ignore year to year variability & growing/aging population. Any number above it is covid caused. And not due to reduced access to healthcare or other government actions.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!
Yeah, HAT, get off Donald’s phone! /The Hair
I don’t use the word “hero” lightly, but you HM, are a true American hero.
I was optimistic that Trump would be an accidental libertarian a little more often. So much for that.
[prays fervently for the Great White Hankerchief to wipe away this snot universe]
I’m just a natural-born educator.
HM the Educator wrote the book of the 7 seals…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NDdF-R2uk
“I was optimistic that Trump would be an accidental libertarian a little more often.”
He has been more so than anyone else since Reagan, who was also nothing close to a libertarian.
Yeah, that’s what got my hopes up.
You’d think an old billionaire would have no fucks to give, but I guess not. Even so, I hope he gets re-elected. Best time line ever!
At the heart of conservatism, is libertarianism. -Ronald Reagan
He wasn’t a libertarian, but he understood the importance of it, to the point of actually mentioning it.
And a significant portion of the Nu-GOP actively seek to undo the legacy of Reagan in that they view his favorable view of what was once called “fiscal conservatism” as deviance from the Old Right’s national-populist and protectionist fiscal and trade policies. It is now “conservative” to leverage monetary seigniorage to fund massive government spending sprees, as long as the spending is done for the proper part of society (i.e., the American Gemeinschaft of working-class Whites and tolerated minorities, as opposed to the “elites” or the “illegals”). Libertarianism stands in opposition to all of that, thus it is a threat that must be excised.
Don’t believe me? Ask Tucker Carlson. We’re the new “neo-cons” now. The sooner we realize it, the better.
Reagan was fairly libertarian, but Reagan viewed defeating the USSR as the most important job he had, so Reagan made the deal with the devil to get his defense budget passed. Trump is not libertarian; at various points he has sounded libertarianish because the establishment bureaucrats have been trying to undermine, impeach, and discredit him since day one and when you rail against police abuses, prosecutorial misconduct, and bureaucracy you sound libertarian, but Trump only hates those things being used against him. Everyone is libertarian when they are being framed.
Trump has done two things that I strongly support:
1. He agreed to listen to the right people about judicial nominee recomendations, which gave us Gorsuch and some good lower court judges
2. He has made some gestures toward reducing regulation.
He is not fiscally conservative at all. He is only as pro 2nd amendment as he thinks his base requires. His tax policy is all over the place. His trade policy is all over the place, mostly bad.
Other than that he is pro America, which is not a libertarian position, but is a position I require as a sine qua non for Presidents. After the first couple years I gave him aC+, Covid, the Massie thing, the
stimulusno lobbyist left behind bill, and his petulance have dropped that to a D.^^this
I’ll also add the tax cut on the early pro-side and give him a B- until recently. I agree on dropping him down to a D.
And the fucked up thing is, it got him nowhere. He’s still blamed for every death, he now owns the downturn/recession, and he gave up any credit for being accidentally libertarianish. I don’t know that he’s the dumbest man alive, but he’s the dumbest man in politics.
“he now owns the downturn/recession, and he gave up any credit for being accidentally libertarianish. I don’t know that he’s the dumbest man alive, but he’s the dumbest man in politics.”
I’m pretty pissed off at accidental libertarian president at the moment too, in case no one has noticed my rants about him standing around watching those 2 retards Fauci and Brix, but that’s a stretch.
I mean, just a few days ago Pat Buchanan(!) ran an op-ed that said “Hey, you know what we don’t need right now? A new Cold War with China!”
When Trump’s lost Pat, you know he done fucked up.
I think Trump’s (((daughter))) presents an issue for Pat.
China is asshoe.
Not sure why, but I keep having this fantasy about shoving a red hot poker up Pooh Bear’s ass over and over again.
“I can assure you that’s a fantasy shared by tens, if not hundreds, of millions of Chinese as well.”
I’m sure it is, and I would have gladly let them have first dibs on that until now…
I can assure you that’s a fantasy shared by tens, if not hundreds, of millions of Chinese as well.
Dear leader or the cartoon?
Well, both.
I’m sure there are a lot of young parents fed up at having to hear Disney channel shit over and over again.
I know I did.*
*(Except when it was TMBG)
[blue text]
For best results, tilt back screen and scroll down slowly….
[dramatic orchestral music blares]
TARD WARS
A NEW GROPE
Chaos as THE REPUBLIC approaches another election.
The Democratic nominee, JOE BIDEN, broadcasts from
a SECRET BASE in the basement of his house. Meanwhile,
President DONALD TRUMP tries desperately to rally the
country against the terrible CORONAVIRUS. Scattered
protests against the LOCKDOWN have erupted in some
states.
But in the background, HILLARY CLINTON has schemed.
Even now, she is quietly LOADING now that BIDEN appears
to be SENILE. Against all odds, a pair of courageous doctors
publish a video about the virus which is memory-holed by
YOUTUBE.
With unemployment sky-rocketing, the American people
look with hopeful eyes for any relief. Will the rebellion
succeed? All hopes are pinned on small groups of
protesters fighting to restore freedom to the country….
I like STEVE SMITH’s version of the Hobo Anthem. There really is a Big Rock Candy mountain in Utah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxh-Hjj8T9o
Nice:) lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GdKhpna_k4
I can’t think of an appropriately enraged yet not quite homicidal response to this:
“ Newsom says coronavirus is an ‘opportunity for reimagining a more progressive era’”
The difference between Gavin Newsom and Gordon Gecko is that Gecko was honest and actually made money.
Some “herr herrr President Cheetos” CA people I know are even recognizing that high taxes are coming while the state collapses so now plotting an exit to ID or MT. No doubt to prog harder in those new locales.
Spot the Not: Tanzania place names
1. Weruweru
2. Mtangalanga
3. Kilakala
4. Mojojojo
5. Ngorongoro
6. Mpwapwa
I’m going with 4, which is too obvious but I think you realize it’s too obvious and you’ve got some sort of 5D chess thing going on here.
[waggles eyebrows]
It’s gotta be 4, cause you just made that shit up.
Mojojojo!
Well, I guess there’s no fooling a bunch as sharp as you guys. 4 is indeed the not. Mojo Jojo is villain from the Cartoon Powerpuff Girls, who is also Mo’s avatar.
Jana nilipanda daladala polepole kutoka kwa Kilakla hata Mtangalanga
Yesterday, I rode a slow minibus from Kilakala to Mtangalanga.
M and N can be syllables in Swahili. M sounds like the m in “Mm!” Campbell’s soup commercials. The syllable N is like in a teenage girl’s “Nnnnnn-no”. The ng sound like in sing can come at the front in Swahili. Ng’ombe means cow.
Ngorongoro means cowbell in Masai. They used to graze their cows there. It’s a big crater full of Jumanji critters. I saw elephants, hippos, zebras, giraffes, and lions when I was there.
Nina homa, na kuna matibabu moja tu – kengere ya ng’ombe zaidi.
Needs more cowbell.
Anyone else getting weirdness with the site? Earlier today, it was slow AF. Now it loads normally, but the font is all weird, and posts with links get eaten.
“Anyone else getting weirdness with the site?”
Yeah, you’re all fucking weird. Did something change I’m unaware of?
It’s loading fast for me, but with weird fonts. If I have to pick between the two, I’ll fast loading over wacky fonts.
“Do you want it to be good or fast?”
“Well, like any American, fast!”
Yeah, I prefer the American way, too. Pissed I can’t post links. I think that’s the new WordPress thing, though. I guess it doesn’t like my handle. WordPress isn’t the only one that doesn’t like my handle.
I’ve run out the clock on getting to the store, so now I must face… Friday night sobriety.
You have our utmost and very sincere sympathy. Now go and get your ass back so you can DRANK like a normal Glib!
No joke, stores are closed at eight by order of the governor or mayor or whatever.
I need the break, anyway.
Weak!
*takes a swig in commodious spittoon’s honor*
what’s left of his honor
*withers away*
It is odd to not be stumbling drunk this late on a Friday night.
Ouch
https://twitter.com/AdamantAnarchy/status/1256264093956104193?s=09
But 97% of experts agree!
That lead me down the rabbit hole to this:
https://twitter.com/checkmatestate/status/1256275902972882947
What the actual fuck?!?
[electronic screeches, hums, whines]
This is not a test. This your emergency broadcast system, announcing the commencement of the annual lockdown, sanctioned by the US government.
At the siren, all non-essential businesses, including bars and restaurants, will be closed for 30 days and masks must be worn in public.
Blessed be our frontline workers, and blessed be America, a nation reborn. May god be with you all.
[sirens blare]
“Convoy” is currently streaming on Prime.
I must bid you a good night – Rubber Duck and I are about to embark on an adventure.
Catch you on the flip flop.
10-4 pig pen.
Watch out for Smokies.
http://archive.li/FIhSd/563903cb87e2f0ef3d08e59288fb96d76e57a882.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/WHA7F/9f1656ac91a98f573aa9587be008e68732f57f42.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/bBAlJ/3dd565c5d57a5e912fdd9caa2913d3217d45c031.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/Xrw30/90c9332954629e30508a81802bd041b12be8c1fb.jpg
NSFW.
Repeat from yesterday? But worth it.
Is it? Dammit.
Russell Crowe got fat.
You just now noticed that?
I’m just now seeing him in The Nice Guys. I can’t remember the last time I saw him on screen.
Wife and I were going to watch that last night. Maybe tonight.
But Crowe have been getting fat since the Quick and the Dead.
I’m enjoying it, but I entertain easily.
I have no idea how we missed that film. But we did. One of the benefits of being a Glib I spose, you find out about stuff.
I thought it was great. Gosling did well playing against his usual type. And Crowe played his usual type with a hint of self parody. Fun stuff.
Are you not entertained?
“Last week, this old broad comes to me and she asks me to find her niece, Misty Mountains.”
“Misty Mountains? The porno actress? The one that died?”
“The young lady. The porno young lady.”
?
People seem to either love or hate Shane Black movies. I’m in the former camp – always a weird mix of humor and grim violence which I apparently enjoy (see, also Kiss Kiss Bang Bang).
I have no idea WTF happened with The Predator though – it had potential but oy…
There’s about a 50/50 chance I would’ve been here tonight had everything in the world not been canceled due to plague.
I still do not know anyone or know anyone who knows anyone that has had the virus. This is the biggest pussy of a plague ever.
Proof the lockdowns are working!
Just like my tiger-repellent rock!
I misread “rock”, for a moment.
In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there’s a bit about when life became too easy from technology, people would get all kinds of simulated injuries from pain-producing implants just to make their lives more interesting.
We’re through the looking glass, people.
Eventually, everyone will be aware that this has all been bullshit. Not saying everyone will admit it if they have a vested interest, like the media, but we will soon know this is not the world ending plague that took over the headlines for months.
The virus will soon be a non-issue, once people realize we are in an economic depression. The question is, will it be blamed on the virus or rightly blamed on the politicians who caused it?
I think you know the answer to that…politicians are infallible.
I know, nick. On rare occasions, I’m a fool and have hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmH2ryDHsAI
Eagles of Death Metal was the band playing in France during the terrorist attack. I like the old school sound.
Not to mention, the press hyping this shit.
I …ahh… have a firm grip on my light saber thank you very much.
I want to subscribe to the female Imperial Flight Officer in a pleather uniform’s newsletter.
Finally, some good news.
https://twitter.com/DrUmarJohnson/status/1256327696138690561
Gay Pornhub keeps on getting weirder and weirder.
At least they can wear each others shirts.
Huh
WTF? NO! We can’t let the niggahs and rednecks get along, it’s goes against our entire plan! /democrats
A day in the life
So when I was in the Peace Corps in Tanzania, I got used to a different pace of life. I’d wake up around 6. Breakfast was a glass of powdered milk and a banana with peanut butter. I taught math (algebra, probability, statistics, calculus) about 3 hours a day Monday til Friday. I had about 150 students, with about 50 per class. Around 4 pm, I’d walk home and bathe with water from a bucket. In the afternoons, I’d open the computer lab and have 1 or 2 hours of computer time depending on the electricity. I used a sign-up sheet to let people reserve a spot. If there was a crowd, I always picked people at the back first. In the evening I’d get a bowl of rice and beans from the village women who cooked for the students. Later, I’d go to the local bar, drink, play checkers, and watch the news. On the weekends, I’d walk 3 miles to the bus stop and ride into town. I’d spend an hour or 2 on the internet, get a burger and fries (it was a tourist town near Mt Kilimanjaro), and come back. I had a 2 bucket setup for filtering drinking water with a thing called a water candle. I boiled the filtered water, let it cool, and stored it in big water bottles. I had running water and electricity most of the time in my little concrete floor house. Sometimes I graded papers by candle light.
I heard recently that all the Peace Corps guys got recalled. That’s a shame. I rode out malaria once and Giardia twice while I was out there.
Milima haikutani lakini binadamu hukutana.
Mountains don’t meet, but people do.
I was 160 pounds when I arrived and 129 when I came back. My first American meal was at Long John Silver’s.
Mmm…hushpuppies.
I know where I’mma go when it’s time for a fat farm.
I fucking love Long John Silver’s batter.
In English, we say you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.
In Swahili, they say you can’t have a baby without taking off your clothes.
Well, the real phrase in Swahili is he who is ashamed of his nakedness cannot reproduce, but I like my translation better.
STEVE SMITH needs to visit whoever made this totally lacist video and show them how NOT OK it is to be mean to our Communist betters //probably The Atlantic or whatever
Now that the press has finally asked Biden about Reade, it looks like there are definitely elements on the left who have lost confidence in Biden. He was terrible in that MSNBC interview.
CNN is still in full-on coverup mode. They are not even talking about it. They’ve decided that “Trump’s new press secretary is a liar (even though everything she said is a verifiable fact)” is the top story.
The NYT is still holding strong on their anti-Reade position, but they’ve altered it to say “these claims should be investigated”. They also penned their first article questioning the TV news for not interviewing Reade on camera. In it they extremely dishonestly pretend that they are serious journalists who were very responsible in covering this story and totally were not part of any attempt to downplay it.
See for yourself
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/business/media/tara-reade-joe-biden-media.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
HuffPo is still full-on team coverup… their top story is that the White House is muzzling Fauci. You know, the guy who has been talking to the press for hours every day for the last month. Yeah, that guy is totally being muzzled.
You’d think that on a day when the DNC nominee finally responded to allegations of sexual assault, this would be a pretty big story. Apparently, you’d be wrong. A few places are emphatically reporting that he’s denied the obvious lies about him… but mostly they are completely downplaying the story.
The other strategy seems to be going with the “we are all tired of this huge over-reach of trying men in public with a standard of ‘believe all women'”. Which is true… we are tired of that. But it is a little too convenient by half to pull that right now.
That may be why Biden went with Brezinski. She was opposed to the way Kavanaugh was treated… so I suppose that was intended to blunt criticisms of him – bringing up her even-handed approach to such allegations.
Of course, Pelosi jumping on TV to say that Reade’s story was a load of BS probably didn’t help that messaging. They should probably do a better job of coordinating.
That Biden interview was a riot. Watching him try to split the hairs between why he deserves to have fair treatment with FACTS! and Kavanaugh didn’t was the highlight of my day.
It’s irrelevant. Everyone is already aware of the new rules, that if you are a democrat, the rules do not apply to you.
Biden cannot beat Trump, dead, alive, or merely vegetative state.
Anyway, until the great identity politics reset, no one will ever run for high office again without being accused of sexually assaulting someone.
They’re all ignoring the whole Michael Flynn story too, which in my opinion is far bigger than Biden.
I was absolutely stunned that this got no play – other than some laughable debunking by some of the far left. (apparently it doesn’t mean that Flynn was set up, it means that Trump was totally lying or something)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xojO-4VFPw
If it wasn’t for public school, would recorders exist? Not having your kid bring home a recorder the ‘practice’ may be the single greatest argument for parents pulling their kids out of state education.
Recorders exist so we can enjoy Shitty Flute https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhJfRNMFx-hX7NUhYaintwbFGMs6lmvmQ
I have a friend who writes symphonies for recorder.
My college room mate wrote a toccata and fugue for a beer horn quartet. Much better than recorder.
(beer horn being the musical name for a beer funnel)
So… did you just smoke a big ol’ joint and want to get weird for the next 2 hours?
Trippy visuals and an insane amount of rocking, rhythmic, howl from Australia. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard present “Polygondwanaland”.
https://youtu.be/vuKVgQB8azg
And if you want to really blow your mind, behold Murder of the Nonagon Fuzz https://youtu.be/0rXwufFoJYw
XX came home from work today and told me she’d talked to a manager how to start up the corporate ladder. She was very excited. Now I am very excited.
Ummm…I don’t write erotica for a living and I’m nervous. You should know better!
Get the shotgun, I’ll drive.
???
I worked at Wal-Mart in the summer of 2003 after I graduated high school. Seemed like a OK gig to me.
The founder has an inspiring story. He became a billionaire by selling stuff for a little bit less out of a pick up truck in Arkansas.
I hunger and thirst for the US to return to the things that made that possible.
Good for her. There are some very real and lucrative career possibilities at that place. Pay attention, because this is how success stories begin.
Yep. I’m just so excited for this kid I can barely stand it. If she didn’t have her trade school next year, I’d just let her graduate early and work, since it seems she’s got management in her sights.
This film is brutal and hilarious.
You’re shitting me. I thought I was up early.
11:11 pm? Fuck.
more vodka and back to bed.
QUIT RUBBING IT IN
What kind of Glib are you, that you don’t have a stash of booze? If we’ve learned nothing else from the WuFlu, it’s that JIT inventory systems are fragile.
Hell, I probably have the smallest domicile here and I have *checks* 120 bottles of wine, some vodka, some gin, Compari, sweet vermouth (I should make a Negroni), plus all sorts of assorted nonsense (e.g., a bunch of Fireball – which is disgusting, but the wife’s running group has a tradition of drinking it after races).
I am, however, drinking the last of my rye.
Writing all that out, maybe that’s a bit excessive. But still.
My discretion and resolve are… lacking. If it’s in the house I tend to knock back a few, then a few more, then it’s closing in on midnight and I’m shitfaced and need to work in the morning. So I usually buy a bottle on Friday and enjoy myself for the weekend and by Sunday I’m ready to dry out.
I remember a time it seems like years ago when I could waltz into the store at five minutes to midnight and buy liquor. Now I’d have to line up not too late after seven with the security guard reminding us that we might not get in if the hour ticks over and the store is still at quarter capacity. Fuck this goddamn virus theater bullshit. I am so sick of it.
Ah, understandable. I’m not like that across the board, but I get on jags – e.g., I drank this whole bottle of rye in 5 days. I know that’s not a torrid pace for a lot of people here, but it is for me. It might be better not to restock for a bit.
I bet I’ve got you beat. I have 583 sq ft. I don’t have a stash, but I have a store 3 miles up the road and live in a north Mississippi county that has no beer laws at all. I can buy beer 24/7/365. The South won’t rise again… ’cause we’re all drunk.
Yikes – you do; 747 sq. ft. for the two of us (sadly, minus dog these days), though it comes with a good chunk of basements space (where the wine lives).
Space isn’t an issue. Most of my shit is in storage, and I’m only home 6 weeks out of the year. Being a nomad has it’s advantages.
I was in a tiny place right after school – around 400 sq. ft. – but basically just slept there; it was just work, then out every night and repeat.
I’m in this space essentially full-time, even without the Rona – I work from home – but it’s laied out well and there’s a vast array of things steps outside the door – all currently closed, of course :-/
Space isn’t everything. It’s just more shit to clean. I’m here, because I can’t beat the rent (free). I had a large 2br apt, but I realized it was crazy to spend $1300 a month for a place I hardly ever saw.
That’s what she said.
Vodka and tangerine juice with Perrier, myself. Curled on the sofa watching shitty movies with the wife.
*cheers!*
So, I went to my PCP a couple of days ago,, for bloodwork for cholesterol and diabeetus, and to renew my DOT medical for my CDL. They took my temp, 98.6. They called today to ask me how I feel. I’m fine. You tested positive for a seasonal cold. I’m fine. Everything else was good. Thanks. It struck me that I have a cold, and wasn’t even aware. How much shit are we exposed to and don’t know it? Is locking ourselves at home and weakening our immune systems a good idea? I ask questions, because I’m crazy.
Is the zoom thing still going on?
It was a good day. I took a a vacation day. Use it or lose it. I can only transfer 40 hours to the next year.
I slept in til 9.
30 sit ups
30 pushups
30 crunches
30 leg lifts
30 minutes of rowing whiile listening to “The Meat Eater “podcast
skipped breakfast
charged the motorcycle battery
installed the battery into the motorcycle
Installed 1/2 gallon of non-oxengenated fuel
Ran the motorcyle for 15-20 minutes
Scrubbed all the crud off the shower pan
Went grocery shopping
Scored not just Charmin, but 4X Charmin
*forgot to take the Charmin coupon to the store*
Nice day!
30 minutes of rowing
What do you have? I’ve gotten back to the Waterrower for ~ 35 (moving towards 40) minutes every other day; I’d go daily but I had some minor tearing in my elbow years ago and it’s never been the same – typing for a living probably doesn’t help.
My buddy got laid off and is, essentially, Mr. Mom now (wife still working), but managed to score a used Concept 2 a couple weeks ago and is overjoyed – he’s wanted one for a long while.
I’ll (re) plug Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive as excellent rowing material – each episode is ~ 35 minutes long, great cinematography and the personalities and stories are really compelling. I certainly wasn’t a motor racing fan before, but I might be one now.
Lifespan RW1000. It was $200 bucks on craigslist. I picked it up during a snow storm.
I have severe arthritis in my left shoulder. It gets better when I exercise regularly.
I have severe arthritis in both knees. It gets better when I exercise regularly.
If’n you fuckers wouldn’t post so often, I would be fit as 25 year-old-pistoffnick.
Can’t beat that price.
And be destroying pussy like 25-year-old pistoffnick did.
I’ve been doing my pull-ups in sets strung out through the day. I had one plateau point where I had to repeat a 5-day set but still getting gains and no pains.
I also have my kettlebells by the table where my PC is – I do sets of one thing or another at random, keeping track in a little notebook. Some days I overdo it and take a rest day. At least I’m getting something out of this lockdown.
I have seriously hurt my rotator cuff. Hopefully, light duty will fix it.
Not sure – was it you to whom I mentioned hanging from a pull-up bar to help stretch the shoulder?
Im going early in the morning to sprouts to stock up on meat. Not gonna hoard, because freezer isn’t big enough. But gonna fill it.
I’m a pork>chicken>beef guy.
There’s gonna be a shortage. I’m telling you. Stock up.
“There’s gonna be a shortage. I’m telling you. Stock up.”
Already have. pork, chicken, and beef.
Already is. Was listening to one of the market reports today and there’s not enough beef to deliver to sold contracts, let alone to the spot market.
Also, China made a big pork purchase last week. I’m sure that will play well once the media starts picking it up.
I love a pork chop but my motto is, “if it don’t moo, it won’t do.” Dry, lean ass chicken sucks.
I’ll take a thick pork chop over a thick rib eye any day
*the other white meat*
Are you cooking that ribeye to well done? I don’t get how chop>ribeye.
I like both medium. There aint been a case of trichinosis from pork for decades in the U.S.
I grew up on a farm.
It was easier to butcher a sow than it was to butcher a heifer.
*I don’t know* some things are innate to how you grew up.
I just prefer pig over cow.
Pigs are similar to dogs in intelligence.
Cows are fucking stupid.
I’d rather eat the smart ones before they decide to eat me.
/short pork tastes like long pork.
/ prepares the fava beans and chills the chianti
I know it’s safe to eat medium pork, but I can’t get past the yuck factor. Marinate that motherfucker overnite and cook the shit out of it. Still doesn’t beat a mid rare ribeye. To each his own.
” it’s safe to eat medium pork”
Hm, is medium pork something between short pork and long pork?
It’s made from dwarfs.
Depends on how much tequila your wife has. Sry. Couldn’t resist. I keed.
Srsly. Marinate chops in the fridge, in Wickers sauce, 24 or more hours, dab dry, then sprinkle with Paul Prudhommes meat magic. Cook the fuck out of it on the grill. Moist, tender and delicious. Still not as good as a room temp ribeye, seasoned with S&P, cooked to medium rare.
So did STEVE SMITH master the shift key or only cut and paste?
BTW, it took at least five tries to login. Who knew there’d be math questions mid-process?
“Whom”
Relevant to last night
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/police-allowed-funeral-wake-to-continue-in-woodburn-despite-governors-coronavirus-orders.html
At least they didn’t go full
retardjackboot the first time? Even so, the whole thing reads like Gestapo in a movie script.Looks like the cops acted more or less appropriately. I’m shocked.
The Nice Guys was very nearly a great film. One bigish detail that I’d change that would have wrapped it up much better, and lose the clunky message spiel at the end. Other than that, very enjoyable, maybe even worth seeing again.
a personal hero: Joe Hooper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hooper_(Medal_of_Honor)
8 Purple Hearts, 6 Bronze Stars, 2 Silver Stars, Medal of Honor
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Hooper couldn’t stay out of trouble, and suffered several Article 15 hearings, then was reduced to the rank of corporal in July 1967. He was promoted once again to sergeant in October 1967, and was assigned to Company D, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, and deployed with the division to Vietnam in December as a squad leader. During his tour of duty with Delta Company (Delta Raiders), 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 501st Airborne Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, he was recommended for the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on February 21, 1968 outside of Hue.
He returned from Vietnam, and was discharged in June 1968. He re-enlisted in the Army the following September, and served as a public relations specialist. On March 7, 1969, he was presented the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon during a ceremony in the White House. From July 1969 to August 1970, he served as a platoon sergeant with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Infantry in Panama. He managed to finagle a second tour in Vietnam; from April to June 1970, he served as a pathfinder with the 101st Aviation Group, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile), and from June to December 1970, he served as a platoon sergeant with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile). In December 1970, he received a direct commission to second lieutenant and served as a platoon leader with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) until April 1971.
Upon his return to the United States, he attended the Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning, and was assigned as an instructor at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Despite wanting to serve twenty years in the Army, Hooper was made to retire in February 1974 as a first lieutenant, mainly because he only completed a handful of college courses beyond his GED.
…
For his service in Vietnam, the U.S. Army also awarded Hooper two Silver Stars, six Bronze Stars, eight Purple Hearts, the Presidential Unit Citation, the Vietnam Service Medal with six campaign stars, and the Combat Infantryman Badge. He is credited with 115 enemy killed in ground combat, 22 of which occurred on February 21, 1968. He became one of the most-decorated soldiers in the Vietnam War, and was one of three soldiers wounded in action eight times in the war.
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He struggled after the war and drank himself to death. He is buried in Arlington.
In technical terms, he’s what is known as a bad motherfucker. From what I see, that species is extinct.
Human nature has not changed much in 100,000 years. Whatever you think is good or bad, it’s still around.
I steer for the good, even when the wind is against me.
Prepare to tack!
There still are traces of that strain. There was one Marine in Afghanistan who was covering for his unit as they were leaving a building. As he was changing magazines he saw the muzzle of an AK-47 snaking around the corner close to him – so he grabbed that rifle out of the startled Haji’s hands and beat him to death with it.
Whoa!
I want to go to Disneyland with that guy.
I’m wondering why they wouldn’t drop him back down to an enlisted rank to finish his 20 years. The army 50 years ago was a very different beast but I would think he would be given more of a chance – maybe he simply didn’t want to go back to being enlisted?
I never heard how MOH awardees are regraded in the Army – even though I was a reservist for 15 years – but in the Marines all ranks are expected to salute a MOH awardee regardless of that Marine’s rank.
That’s how I understood it when I was a wee lad. Get the MOH and generals salute you.
I’ve known a couple of former officers in the Guards who gave up their commission for enlisted rank.
We had an E-5 in my last unit who was a West Point graduate. He had timed out at his last rank on active duty, left the military, then decided to come back in years later as an enlisted soldier to finish up his 20 years.
My active duty unit had an E-8 in our Headquarters Platoon who was also a Major in the CA National Guard. He would always make a point of coming by Battery HQ during his Guard weekends, just so the CO, XO, and Top would have to salute him.
I knew that the Guard is a different entity altogether but I hadn’t known one person could have two completely different service identities. In particular, I hadn’t known somebody could be commissioned in the Guard and not have that be reflected in the regular service.
I’m not doubting you, I’ve seen some weird stuff concerning the Guard so I can believe it.
GI Joe – a real American Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_9jKFpQKM
Decided to watch the 1966 batman show for a dramatic change of pace.
Very first episode – Riddler drugs the bat and kidnaps Robin. Not exactly showing them in a very capable light. Though admittedly, it was Grayson who solved all the riddles up to that point.
[twirls newspaper while trumpet plays hot jazz motif]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOoUteabhgc
I’m laughing my ass of at this show.
As well you should. I couldn’t understand as a kid why my mother laughed at the show. As an adult, how can you not?
I never did “camp” film/TV very well. And for my interests and limited amount of time I can sit down through an entire episode/movie I still have a few dozen episodes of Forgotten Weapons to watch.
It’s supposed to be background noise while I’m doing other things.
I’m all for resurrecting 80s cartoons, except in this case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdY_cUbNaGA
Who’s the intended audience? It is nostolgic adults or kids?
Yes
It looks a bit ‘”cute.” I’m not sure how I feel about it.
There is a new DuckTales, too.
According to the reviews, ratings, and prompt cacellation, it wasn’t any good.
No idea about duck tales 2
Seems the trend is quantity over quality. And to through everything and anything at the wall to see what sticks.
throw
In new DuckTales, Donald speaks normal for once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQilDSlpRg
Your depth of knowledge is astounding.
With these words, you join the ranks of the immortals.
WTF|3.12.15 @ 10:36AM|#
You really are a Sadist, you know that, don’t you?
Scruffy Nerfherder|4.22.14 @ 9:01PM|#
You’re hurting my brain with this shit.
Wasteland Wanderer|3.13.15 @ 5:52PM|#
You are an evil person. I hope you know that.
Warty|3.9.15 @ 2:00PM|#
You are truly a monster.
Agile Cyborg|10.8.14 @ 9:13PM|#
You seem very interesting.
Homple|9.28.16 @ 7:39PM|#
Thanks for eroding my will to live.
Tonio on October 27, 2019 at 5:05 pm
Derpy, you are the son I always wanted.
Breet Pharara on November 22, 2017 at 5:37 pm
So you keep a collection of the cries of pain from your victims then huh? I think that qualifies you as a sociopath.
Death is but a door. Time is but a window. In the words of my favorite killer robot:
I”LL. BE. BACK.
I like to think I’m the good version of SkyNet.
i see you have a list
I HAVE *DETAILED* FILES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQsG3TKQ0I
“It wouldn’t play with you, or ask you riddles. But it understood all about arrogance and power and cruelty and if it could possibly manage it, it would burn your head off. Because it liked to.”
Fan of Terry Pratchet, I see. That quote caused some more of my relays to kick on.
Whoops. Forget I said that. Some internet commenters might be Turing machines, but I most certainly am not.
yes
prove you are not a robot. check all boxes with traffic lights.
*checks all boxes with taillights.*
I get the “prove you’re not a robot” thing about half the time I use Google. Evidently, I’m so good at finding info on the internet that they assume I’m some kind of military-grade supercomputer. Which is true, in a way…
In the days of yore, there was an NSA computer called FROSTBURG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROSTBURG
There are far more powerful computers now.
Beep, beep, boop. Sorry, I have to go to 10 again. Stupid loop function…
“See also HARVEST” that’s not creepy at all.
“One purpose of the machine was to search text for key words from a watchlist. From a single foreign cipher system, Harvest was able to scan over seven million decrypts for any occurrences of over 7,000 key words in under four hours.”
C’mon. That’s pretty cool isn’t it?
maybe, a little
No one.
If I was younger and in better shape, I think I’d be happy as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8ZmmHpCONk
The Guardian is an underrated Costner movie.
😀
I know it’s not much, and probably doesn’t mean a lot to very many people, but after a year of not having touched the game, I hopped into a match of mechwarrior online and the highlight of the fight was tearing apart one of those circle-strafing lights who think their speed and maneuverability means they can pick on the heavies. He realized my Marauder could turn as fast as he could run circles around me when the arms on his mech got blasted away, and ran off right into a pack of my teammates who finished the squashing (not that I left them much work to do)
Reactor online, sensors online, weapons online, all systems nominal
I used to watch my brother play that game.
Stairs are the downfall of walking row-bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQiskRb02o
I admit it is the only multiplayer game I’ve played for a long, long time.
I liked internet checkers. I could eat a burger, drink a beer, and play a guy from Herpaderpastan.
I find the problem with not drinking too much Friday night is that I wake up too early on Saturday.
#metoo
Good morning! Geez, if I interpret your handle/recall your whereabouts correctly, it IS early where you are. At least I’m in EDT.
Seems time stamps are now displayed local time to commentor? But ya, I had been up for awhile when I posted that. Woke up about 0330. Normal wake up is 0400 so I almost made it.
I highly doubt it would be timestamped to the commenter’s local time – it’s 8:51 PM here – so let’s try it.
Yours says 5:51 which is MST. Very weird.
And Good Morning to you too!
Tom Woods on Amash moving to the L party: “…….he is saying I am a loser, who is going to take a loser? It’s sad!” (paraphrased)
Just moved the party out to our back porch. Takes a bit of doing to pack up the laptop, lap desk and the necessary cordage (I’ll be out here a LOT longer than the battery can hold out,) but this is my sanity-saving place.